The JMG Collections
Include more than 10,000 original artifacts, which document the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish history and culture in Greece.
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Wedding dress in A-line, vertical front opening, cherry red velvet with laid and couched gold embroidery, over all composition of floral tendrils and garlands (Bindalli).
Torah ark curtain, purple velvet with laid and couched gold embroidery, made from a Bindalli festive dress, light salmon cotton inscription panel at the top, insciption embroidered with gold silk thread in chain stitch, dedicated by the president of the congregation, Abraham Isaac Samuel Vitali, to the Old Congregation, Ioannina.
Torah ark curtain, purple velvet with laid and couched gold embroidery, made from a Bindalli festive dress.
Blue velvet with laid and couched gold embroidery, odd shape, probably unstitched and resewn festive dress.
Dark red velvet with laid and couched gold embroidery, made from skirt section of a festive dress.
Fragment of Torah ark curtain or reader's desk cover (?), dark purple velvet with gold embroidery in couching technique, made from festive dress.
Dark red velvet with laid and couched gold embroidery, made from section (neckline) of a festive dress.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, gold laid and couched embroidery on purple silk velvet, made from an Ottoman-style festive dress, used to decorate the Tik held by the Hatan Torah (Bridegroom of the Torah), rear side detail.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, gold laid and couched embroidery on purple silk velvet, made from an Ottoman-style festive dress, used to decorate the Tik held by the Hatan Torah (Bridegroom of the Torah), rear side detail.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, gold laid and couched embroidery on purple silk velvet, made from an Ottoman-style festive dress, used to decorate the Tik held by the Hatan Torah (Bridegroom of the Torah), front side detail.
Torah ark curtain, faded purple velvet with gold embroidery, made from festive dress in Ottoman style, dedicated by Hannah, wife of Abraham M. Matsa, in memory of her husband and her son Moses.
Tik (Torah case) wrapper, gold laid and couched embroidery on purple silk velvet, made from an Ottoman-style festive dress, used to decorate the Tik held by the Hatan Torah (Bridegroom of the Torah).